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EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 163 - DECLARING
THE PHILIPPINE NATIONAL GAMES AS THE CENTERPIECE PROGRAM
WHEREAS, Section 19(1), Article
XIV, of the 1987 Constitution provides that: “The State shall promote
physical education and encourage sports programs, league competitions,
and amateur sports, including training for international competitions,
to foster self-discipline, teamwork, and excellence for the development
of a healthy and alert citizenry;
WHEREAS, Republic Act No. 6847 created the Philippine Sports Commission
(PSC) under the Office of the President to carry out this
constitutional mandate in coordination with the various government
departments and agencies and private entities;
WHEREAS, Executive Order No. 63 created the National, Regional,
Provincial, City, Municipal, and Barangay Physical Fitness and Sports
Development Councils (PFSDC), which shall act as the nationwide
organizational network to assist the Philippine Sports Commission in
the planning, information dissemination, and actual implementation and
monitoring of the National Policy and Program of “SPORTS FOR ALL”;
WHEREAS, the Philippine Sports Commission, in accordance with the
National Physical Fitness and Sports Development Council (NPFSDC) and
the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG), has
launched the PHILIPPINE NATIONAL GAMES as the centerpiece program of
the government’s national physical fitness and sports development
effort towards PHILIPPINES 2000;
WHEREAS, the Philippine National Games program is envisioned to
effectivity address our need for a truly comprehensive grassroots
sports development program, generating sports activities in the
countryside and harnessing the full potential of our people to athletic
excellence in line with the PHILIPPINES 2000;
NOW, THEREFORE, I, FIDEL V. RAMOS, President of the Philippines, by
virtue of the powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:
Section 1.
Sec. 2.
Sec. 3.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the said of
the Philippines to be affixed.
DONE in the City of Manila,
this 3rd day of March, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and
ninety-four.
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